Month: February 2016

Haiku for Mum

I am reposting a haiku/senryu  as a response to  Carpe Diem #915 Melody on the theme of Mother. I wrote it back in the summer after visiting my mother in the care home where she has been living for nearly two years. She has Pick’s disease, a form of dementia.   Although you’re fading, Your smile is […]

Last Sunday’s walk on the beach

I couldn’t see an episode of Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha’s ‘Echoes of my Neighbourhood’ today but I thought I’d post this anyway. Update: Jacqui has posted her ninth edition. As you will see from the poem I posted yesterday, ‘Your shoes will make you happy today’, a response to the dVerse poets ‘as the cookie crumbles’ Chinese New Year prompt, my […]

Hooray!

I am so excited. One of my short stories, ‘Ghost Writer’, has won The Word Hut 19th Writing Competition! They said: ‘We thoroughly enjoyed your story and it worked successfully on a number of different levels in addition to being well written.’ I can only say that I am HAPPY!